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Finally, The hard penance  start shedding. And flame laden air fading slowly far away as Cold stiff breeze blows from all direction. I switched off my cooler. I sighed that was holding for months, I made comforts & murmur myself, like a split-personality, I was waiting you since a year and you made it late. So late I thought you forgot the monsoon. So late that you lost all mist & moist on the way.  I thought it should have been my Aug monsoon in Kochi when  I cursed the sky to turn baleful and remain silent for a day.  I smiled lopsidedly, accepted that Hyderabad is not Kochi after all.

I missed this monsoon dearly. This sickness drags me back in those days when I was a marathon kid, tireless energy amidst insane rains turns us to chant a rhyme that echoed around Butwal “Hara Hara Mahadev Pani day, Yeti lay pugayna Ajhai day”  (Hey Mahadadev Give us more rains, its not enough add more), a group of friend like a  nude ascetic warriors were gaining strength from the monsoon. And all the neighbors watched us joyously. We lost our shame and shyness. The monsoon proved us there is day for everyone.

Since The day I begun my serious donkey affairs,  I have been missing Hyderabadi tequila sunrise and a not-so-java-like-coffee. But Feb 19th dawn made me awake, Thanks my early alarm, It rang so loud, eavesdropped into my dream.

After struggling hustling bustling traffic, I found myself amid dark rock concert. The state of art auditorium was completely overshadowed by unconvincingly genius kid drummer.

In few minutes, Gosling received tumultuous welcome like rockstar. He spent rest of 45 minutes talking about Java mantra. “This underground London ticket is java powered”, said proud Gosling, displaying a smart card out from his pocket.

Java is ubiquitous and Sun knows better to keep Java on the long run. They recently revealed products like JavaFX that targets the emerging trends. Every products Sun has announced since 2005 remains open. Sun has realized that the open source software can create enormous revenue opportunities.

During my FOSS.IN  2006, in Bangalore,  Java was just announced GPL’ed and many more project were  already released under CDDL.  From the early 2006 to 2009, I found number of changes.  OpenSolaris now possesses groundbreaking features, NetBeans transform to universal IDE with awesome plug-in, however few product like OpneSlaoris still carries not-so-friendly license particularly cited in  GPL community Recently, MySQL AB acquisition has added one more products in its stack. GlassPath remains fully committed as opensource in license like GPL2. Truly, Sun has changed its business model realizing the risk that how other company are emerging more powerful than they had thought of.  Few years ago, Redhat almost turned out to be a serious threat, just few inch away in term of market capitalization.

Sun tech day’09 remains  with  few booths.  Sun commitment to PostgreSQL was clearly invisible after MySQL AB was brought in. Some serious framework like Spring remains completely overshadowed.  I noticed merely 2 sessions outside scope of Sun Engineer.  Seam,  the influential framework which leads JSR  299 specs, now known as WebBeans remains one of the cool topics , Groovy and Grails shows the pragmatic approach that could shift the current development model,  but still the majority of session remains focused with Sun engineered tools, frameworks and products.

IDE spectrum was one of the area where only NetBeans were given full preference. No single session on Eclipse was mentioned. The Eclipse community is many more times larger than NetBeans in India. I definitely love Netbeans for its features in 6.x onwards but Java community cannot ignore the IDE that remains the heart of every development  since the inception of opensource IDE revolution.

In fact the Sun Tech Days remind me yet another single man shows who wants their products (whether opensource or not) to be used and to be showcased whether visitors give damn about it or not.   The event organizer could have invited some of the successful framework developer or evangelist or experts. At least here in India, We see rare developer conference like this. There is no JavaOne, No open community can afford to held the diverse set of  tracks. The common Indian Java developers belief tends towards such events remains a defacto to Sun Java  and its not good idea Sun exploits this opportunity with its in-house products focused event.  Java is now cover with too many diverse framework and statistics shows that some of the big player are already adopting new stack of development tools ignoring the bloated complicated framework created by Sun.

JavaFX remains an appealing product for RIA domains but I am still not convinced on the fact that JavaFX can leads the RIA (may be it can in JVM). The Flash and Silverlight still remains dominating products and the heavily bloated JavaFX will have to wait sometime. The adoption rate of JavaFX cannot be compared with the download rates. Often this assumption leads to believe some of the top Sun honchos circle about its possible popularity.

In Mobile track, I was thrill to discover hot features in new  MIDP 3.0 & Light weight user interface toolkit (LWUIT),  could possibly reduce development time. BD-J and JavaTV API  was one of the coolest products I have seen so far in the session.  One interesting session surrounded with G1 gc as opposed to CMS gc. As we aware of the stop-the-world cost is bit high in CMS.  It remain always big headache for Enterprise grade server.  Now seems that G1 gc gonna cut this down by its new approach to make heap significantly less fragmented, more compact by creating a chunk of each mega bytes regions.  The G1 collector is  parallelized  and work concurrently with the application. The young collection remains as it is in CMS, but the significant advantage is in the collection of regions allocated as tenured space. You can read more in the web.  Its beyond the scope of this blogs. The g1 GC is available in OpenJDK 1.7 beta. The test seems going pretty well with Sun customer.

Well, I am not going for Sun merchandise, OpenSolaris CD, weird fashion shows and to make them see you dancing with macho bulge of belly. I want Sun to think beyond their products and encourage those communities who are making greater impact in java communities.  Lets make them participate, expand the subject line broader and make event adventurous.  Its almost impossible to allocate session to everyone but there need a little re-shift the way track are prepared.

Anyway, Kudos to  all the Sun folks making geekfest really successful despite of incessant pessimism of the global economic meltdown. I literally see every single hall was full of enthusiastic crowds. I guess its the largest conference center in India. Literally, Even It was not enough to accommodate.

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Ploughing field is matter of past for Hyderabadies however the culture is rooted  so deep that every villas owner mimics farmer for at least a day. Coinciding with Makara Sankranti and Lohri of the north, it is generally refer as Pongal Sankranti in South. Pongal begins with Bhogi. And its all about abundance of harvest and thanking to Lord Indra, also known to be God of Rains. I saw almost all houses have artistic drawing reflecting the old gold cultural pattern  drawn outside the gate. One of them near my apartment. Take a look a snap. Well, I should have been outskirts of Hyderabad to experience the celebration. Better next time. I saw people here  worshiping the sun and the earth by anointing  ploughs and sickles with sandalwood paste as My houseowner was doing the same too. He was pretty generous to offer me delicious Pongol vegetarian cuisine.

I experienced Pongol holiday a bit. Yet, I could have done kiting too. Anyway, better nextime

Experienced Enron ghost in Hyderabad. Experienced mound of filthy bluechip garbage amid dirty catastrophic alley. Experienced blue honcho’s sublime ability to crunch the gigantic numbers.

India 4th largest digital ambassadors had never dreamed a whopping price to pay for its beautiful name. The multi-billion dollar truth broke tsunami, blew jitter across India’s outsourcing industry. Helpless pity investor turns electric blue. Thousands of thousands employee jobs screwed.

They were right, greed and lust has no barrier. The cruel Enron ghost brazen and siphon cash out of  hard owned Satyamaties’ hive. Pump all it in selfish family owned dung . Dreaming to turn million into zillion, All the sudden out of blue, the recession rocked, inflation rolled, US market cracked and Lax accounting slipped out of smelling mouth. The world has nothing to say about it. Once upon a time in India, there was a company called Satyam, Enron’s demon haunted it down. The story ends.

Today, Friday prayer marks with angers against Israeli attacks. My office and resident is few meters away from US consulate. The furious protester gathers to reflect their supports to Gazian. As I was moving to office, I saw cops were stopping them from marching towards US consulate. I took snaps to mark my blogs to reflect my  anguish, angers against the brutal beginning of new eve that blood hunger Israeli has started.

When we were too much worried about how to keep cool this yule?  Israel warplanes  busy destroying buildings once considered off limits, including mosques and government and university compounds, killing several helpless women, children and many young Gazans, like a worst nightmare, remaining survivors transformed into refugee camp, queuing up for bread and fearing F-16 bombardments overhead. As it hovers, desperate hungry Gazian run for their life. It is likely more than 400 people are killed since Saturday. The death toll could raise more.  All Israel has to justify was “targeting only Hamas”. The deliberate call off the cease fire from Hamas subsequently launching unprecedented rockets attacks against Israel sparked serious tension between two neighbors.  Israeli left no stone unturn for disproportionate assault against Gazian.  Today, for sake of Hamas rocket firing entire Gazian paying heavy humaneterian toll.  Everything from resident building to  government offices  had been pummeled. All for the sake of making Hamas incapable firing against Israeli.

A war that has been waging since half-century remains unsolved. It looks like truce never comes to Palestine.  It looks like destroying each other is a solution for the whole conflict. The God has made us human being to use our wit and wisdom to solve complex problem. Today, I am pretty convinced that Israeli & Hamas have lost both of them. They are senseless. They looks like beast to me.  I have no words to condemn the brutal murderous acts from both side of borders.

My hearts goes out to all Gazans victims.  The attack must stop right away. The war will reach no where. It will create more panic, more hatred, more bloody bath. No one can win war in Palestine!

Israel, Stop right away your senseless acts  and behave like a human being. Establish truce  and solve the issue politically.

I have hectic days ahead. Packing stuffs for Dashain. Readying myself for early Oct 4th morning flight.